knowing vs vestal

knowing

adj
  • Deliberate, wilful. 

  • The ability to know something without being taught. 

  • Suggestive of private knowledge or understanding. 

  • Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent. 

  • Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning. 

  • Demonstrating knowledge of what is in fashion; stylish, chic. 

prep
  • Given my knowledge about someone or something. 

noun
  • The act or condition of having knowledge. 

vestal

adj
  • Pure; chaste. 

  • Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth. 

noun
  • A female virgin; a woman who has never had sexual relations. 

  • A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar; a vestal virgin. 

  • A nun. 

How often have the words knowing and vestal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )